Psa Msg 9

Truth:
1. David's boasting in his righteousness was in the line of the tree of knowledge, but God's eye and God's wings are in the line of the tree of life.
2. "As for me, in righteousness will I look into You face," Psalm 17:15. David should have said that he would look into God's face because of God's mercy and lovingkindness.
3. God is not good to us because of our righteousness. He is good to us because of His compassion. We need not only His mercy but also His far-reaching compassion to preserve us.
4. God anointed David because of His lovingkindness.
5. We know that Christ is typified by the sun because David refers to the sun as a bridegroom. Christ is the the Bridegroom with the bride.
6. The entire principle of the Bible tells us that God does not want anything from man. What God wants is not a good man, but a God-man.
7. Abel was accepted by God, not because his secret faults and his presumptuous sins were dealt with, but because he realized that he was a sinner.
8. To bless is higher than to pray. A person who blesses people needs a higher status, a higher stature in life.
9. As a king, David blessed his people. As the one anointed by god, he blessed the anointing God.

Life experience/Application:
1. To talk means to open yourself up and release all your opinions. Have we ever had such a talk with the Lord Jesus?
2. All of us have some secret faults which only we know. David also prayed to be kept from presumptuous sins. To be presumptuous is to be bold without consideration.
3. When Christ lives through us, our conduct is not our goodness but Christ.
4. If we stand on our righteousness, we may be able to pray, but we cannot bless. To bless others, we must stand on all that God is. We cannot bless people with our righteousness. We have to bless people with what God is and has.

Psa Msg 8

Truth:
1. God's intention with man for the accomplishment of His economy needs a pleasant situation, a pleasant environment.
2. Without Satan, the excellency, the majesty, the wisdom, and the marvelous, wonderful points of God could never be exhibited.
3. It is possible to pray to God, love God, praise God, and work for God according to the line of the knowledge of good and evil.
4. Faith is to stop our work, to stop our doing. Faith is to trust in the Lord. The principle of the Sabbath is you have to cease your work because God is everything to you.
5. The only way we can take refuge in the Son is to stop our doing.

Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, I can do nothing and i do not want to do anything. I just want to enjoy You, to partake of You, to experience You, to live You, and to express You.
2. The Lord must be first in our marriage, in our spending of money, and in our demeanor.
3. Do we love people and help people by ourselves or by Christ?
4. Regardless of how good something is, God only cares for who does it. God wants us to live Him, but not by ourselves. God wants us to express Him, but not by ourselves. We have to stop our expression. We have to put our trust in Him and let Him live in us and out of us. Then whatever we do will be an honor and a glory to God.

Psa Msg 6

Truth:
1. In the whole universe, there is only one person who is perfect according to the law -- Jesus Christ.
2. David had a good concept that the One who is sitting on the throne judges in righteousness and with justice. But this concept is according to the law and tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
3. David did not praise God for the nations to be saved by God's grace, but for the nations perishing.
4. God's throne today is not a throne of the King of authority. His throne today is the throne of a loving Savior.

Life experience/Application:
1. In today's NT age, could we go to God and ask Him to put down our enemies, the ones that hate us? We cannot do this because the NT tells us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.
2. When we read the Holy Bible, we should not understand it according to our way or our concept. A person may be very scholarly and learned and yet receive nothing of the divine revelation from the Bible.

Psa Msg 5

Truth:
1. Above the heavens there is splendor, and on the earth, there is the excellent name. But in between the heavens and the earth, there are the adversaries within, the enemy without, and the avenger running back and forth.
2. All the people who are in the kingdom of the heavens are either babes or sucklings.
3. Weaker ones in themselves cannot praise. To praise requires strength. Without strength, we cannot praise the Lord.
4. If there is no death, there is no resurrection, and if there is no resurrection, there is no ascension. Furthermore, without His incarnation and human living, He was not qualified to die.
5. Above David in the heavens was the glory, and with David on this earth was an excellent name.
6. In this view David had a pure vision to see the pure work in God's creation and ordination. In the universe there is not only God's creation but also God's ordination.
7. The Lord's redemption is to turn us from the messy earth to the bright heaven.
8. Condition-wise, Christ is in glory. Position-wise, Christ is in honor.
9. To be crowned with honor implies the ascension.

Life experience/Application:
1. Some praises may not be considered as perfected praises, because they are not so full of strength.
2. Today with us, the earth is joined to the heavens, the heavens are brought down to the earth, and the two are one. But with the unbelieving ones and with the defeated Christians, the heavens are far away and the earth is dark and messy. That is why the unbelievers need all kinds of worldly amusements and sinful pleasures. But we do not need them. We need only Christ and the church life. When we live Christ and live in the church life, the heavens and the earth are one.
3. When a person becomes regenerated, he becomes quiet, not wanting to act or speak in himself.
4. We need to praise Him for His splendor above the heavens and His excellency on earth.
5. When we come to the Lord's table, we stop every kind of human speaking and human doing.
6. Our Christian life should be like the Lord's table. When we go home after the Lord's table, we should continue to praise the Lord.

Psa Msg 4

Truth:
1. The law cannot do what God requires because it is weak through the flesh.
2. David should have asked God to enlighten him so that he could see how evil and sinful he was.
3. The law and David's knowledge of it did not work for him.
4. David asked God to judge him according to his righteousness and integrity. Where was his integrity?

Life experience/Application:
1. The more we appreciate the law, the more we will commit something against the law.
2. We human beings always are not easily convinced of or subdued in our sinfulness.
3. We all need God's mercy to see our failures, our sinfulness, and our filthiness, to even roll on the floor in confession of our sins.

Psa Msg 3

Truth:
1. To be Christ's complement means that we are a part of Him.
2. Mount Zion is not a place to show us the law, the commandments. It is a place to show us Christ -- only Christ.
3. God is embodied in Christ, Christ is in His Body, and His Body is God's house and God's city for God's kingdom.
4. Christ was the only begotten Son of God in His divinity, but when He became incarnated, He put humanity upon Him.
5. The sonship began with the regeneration of our spirit, is continuing with the transformation of our soul, and will be consummated with the redemption of our body.
6. To believe into Christ is to take refuge in Him. Today our Christ is our refuge, our protection. We are hiding ourselves in Him.
7. To believe in the Lord is to receive Him; to love the Lord is to enjoy Him.
8. The Lord is within us to be our faith and to be our love.

Life experience/Application:
1. Our being for Christ is mostly in theory, but our being for the law is very practical.
2. A parent may say to his child, "This is not right; you shouldn't do it." But have we ever said, "This is not Christ; you shouldn't do it."
3. Kissing the Son is higher than keeping the law.
4. A young believer may be strong to boldly tell the Lord that he loves Him and will never deny Him. But when he is defeated, his natural confidence in his love toward the Lord will be dealt with. Then he will learn to follow the Lord and to love the Lord without any confidence in his natural strength.

Psa Msg 2

Truth:
1. God in His economy planned to create and to have a man in His image and after His likeness that man one day could receive him as life to live Him and to manifest him so that He might have an organism to express His Divine Trinity.
2. Sarah signifies the new covenant of grace and Hagar symbolizes the old covenant of the law.
3. A lady may be good and spiritual in her nature, yet still be a concubine. Because the law is the word of God, it is good and spiritual in nature.
4. The 10 Commandments cover our relationship with God, with our parents, and with others.
5. Killing comes out of anger and hating.
6. The law is a portrait of God, a testimony of God.
7. The law functions to subdue men as sinners under God's judgement.
8. The law is not able to give life and not able to do that which God wants because it is weak through the flesh. The flesh is the law's companion.
9. To remember another person's faults is not good. The proper forgiving is to forget.
10. We are God's pants by being grafted into Christ to be made branches of Christ as the great true vine.

Life experience/Application:
1. If someone who loves the Lord is suffering, his suffering is not basically a matter of his being right or wrong. What God is concerned with is our having more of God in our inward being.

Psa Msg 1

Truth:
1. The law works to expose us. Paul pointed out that the law was something added to the central line of the divine revelation to expose man's sinful nature and wicked deeds.
2. The book of Psalms is not a book of stories, but a book of divine revelation through the expressions of the sentiments, feelings, impressions, and experiences of godly men.
3. Eventually, the psalmists turned from enjoying the law in which they delighted to enjoying God whom they loved and sought after.
4. The divine concept of God in Psalms is concerning His eternal economy in Christ, taking Christ as its centrality and universality.
5. The divine concept in the Psalms is also concerning God's heart's desire, His good pleasure in Christ as His centrality and universality, in the church as His fullness for His expression, in the kingdom for His eternal administration, and in the recovery of the earth for His eternal kingdom in eternity.
6. To take refuge in Christ means to believe in Him, and to kiss Him means to love Him.
7. According to the divine concept, the central thought of the book of Psalms is Christ, as revealed in plain words, and the church as the house of God and the city of God for His kingdom, as typified by the temple and the city of Jerusalem.
8. When his name is here on the earth, the earth is excellent.
9. Book 4 of Psalms indicates that the saints, being joined to Christ, are one with God so that he can recover His title over the earth through Christ in His house and city.
10. The law doe not bring people close to God. However, the law does escort people to Christ.

Life experience/Application:
1. The law was not given for us to keep for our prosperity. Instead, the law was given to expose us.
2. If we want to make the earth excellent, we need to preach the gospel and turn sinners into Christians.

Isa Msg 54

Truth:
1. The all-inclusive Christ is the Servant of Jehovah in two aspects. First, He is the Anointed of Jehovah. Second, He is the Angel of the presence of Jehovah.
2. Angle of the presence of Jehovah means that He is the presence of Jehovah.
3. Angle of the presence of Jehovah is a term mostly applied toward the enemies of God's people.
4. Messiah, the Anointed One of Jehovah, will come two times. The first time is for the age of grace, and the second time will be for the age of restoration.
5. The church was hidden between the two peaks of Christ's coming.
6. Jesus was anointed to 1) bring good news, 2) to bind up wounds of the brokenhearted, 3) to proclaim liberty to the captives and the release of those who are bound, 4) to proclaim acceptable year of Jehovah and the day of vengeance of our God, 5) to comfort those who mourn, 6) to grant those who mourn in Zion a headdress instead of ashes, oil of gladness instead of mourning, and the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of heaviness.
7. Those who mourn in Israel put ashes upon themselves, but Christ will remove the ashes and give them a turban, a headdress.
8. At Christ's coming back, He will burn the world and tread the great winepress, which includes Antichrist.

Isa Msg 53

Truth:
1. God promised that the very Christ, who would come out of David's descendants, would be the sure mercies of God toward the royal family of David.
2. The last king of the royal family of David will be Jesus Christ, the embodiment of God's sure mercies.
3. Why did Paul not exhort the saints through the great love of God? This is because the great love of God is too far away from us in our pitiful condition and situation.
4. If I am so poor, I am not on the level to match God's love.
5. Mercies are somewhat like kindness and compassion. God's mercies, as the initiation of God's grace in His love, reach us the farthest. Mercy is the initiation for God's grace to come in with God's love.
6. God needed to exercise His mercy. Without mercy, He could not have reached His people.
7. These mercies were covenanted. A covenant is not just a promised but a contract, and this covenant is Christ.
8. The holy things of David, the faithful things, are the sure mercies of David. The Holy One is Christ, the Son of David, in whom God's mercies are centered and conveyed. Christ is the sure mercies, and He is also the One who is holy. This shows that these sure mercies will do a work to sanctify all the enjoyers.
9. The Father's compassion sanctifies the returning son, makes him holy, separating him entirely unto the Father.
10. Sanctification needs a based, and the base of sanctification is justification. Based upon such a justification in Christ's resurrection, we are enjoying Christ as the mercies which sanctify us.
11. Without being God's mercies, Christ could never be a Redeemer to the rotten, corrupted children of Israel.

Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, give us a heart that is seeking after You, and give us the eyes that we could see You.
2. Peace means that all the problems are solved. When I say that I am a saint, this implies that I have no problems.
3. Because we believers have Christ within us, we are rising up. Today Christ is our divine mercies; He is our Redeemer; and He is our light. Based upon Him, we are rising.

Isa Msg 52

Truth:
1. Col. 2:15 says that while Christ was hanging on the cross, the Father stripped off the rulers and authorities, the evil angelic powers.
2. When Greece under Alexander was fighting against Persia, the two princes also were fighting in the air.
3. Spoil signifies prey, and prey denotes captives taken in a war.
4. God the Father was the Great and also the Strong, and God the Son was the Fighter.
5. Christ vanquished and captured them through His death and resurrection and took them to the heavens in His ascension.
6. The Father acknowledged the Son's victory and divided to Him a portion of the spoil.
7. Neither the Father nor the Son received the ultimate benefit from such a demonstration. Eventually, the Body of Christ, the church, gained all the gifts, all the spoil.
8. The Father was pleased to receive such a gift, and He returned us to the Son, and the Son made us a gift through transformation with His resurrection life. Then He gave us as gifts to the church in our locality to do the work of the New Testament ministry, that is, to build up the Body of Christ.
9. According to Eph 1:7, we were redeemed into Christ not only as a person but also as a sphere and as an element.
10. Christ continues His ministry in the heavens. In executing such a ministry, He is the Lord in the heavens, the Christ, the Head, and the great High Priest.
11. The lampstands among which Christ is walking are not on the earth but in the heavens.
12. The old creation is like an egg, and the new creation is like a little hen.
13. The 4 stages of God's old creation are 1) the age before the law, from Adam to Moses; 2) the age of the law, from Moses to the first coming of Christ; 3) the age of grace, from Christ's first coming to His second coming; 4) the age of the kingdom, from Christ's second coming to the end of the thousand-year kingdom.

Life experience/Application:
1. We are all gifts given by Christ to the church. We too were once Satan's captives. Then Christ defeated Satan and captured us and brought us to the Father; and the Father gave us to the Son. The Son made us a gift by transforming us with His resurrection life.
2. Christ is the Leader to the unbelievers and the Savior to us, the believers.

Isa Msg 51

Truth:
1. In Isaiah 53:10b-11b, there are 4 points: 1) Christ's making Himself an offering for sin; 2) His seeing a seed and extending His days; 3) His seeing the issue of the travail of His soul and being satisfied; and 4) His making many righteous by the knowledge of Him. The first item of the four belongs to the stage of Christ's crucifixion. The remaining 3 belong to the third stage, the stage of Christ's resurrection.
2. By the knowledge of Him does not mean by Christ's knowledge but by knowing Him, the righteous One, the resurrected Christ as God's Servant.
3. For Christ to make us righteous is not merely to justify us through His death by His blood. It means primarily to make us righteous.
3. Christ's resurrection produced the life-giving Spirit.
4. Elijah's raising of the widow's son and even the Lord Jesus' raising of Lazarus cannot be counted as resurrection in full, because after being resurrected, both of these resurrected ones died.
5. In His resurrection, Christ became the Germinator of the new creation, and He also became the Head, the top One, of the Body.
6. In the aspect of His being a man, He was not divine before His resurrection.
7. Christ's believers are His brothers, and His brothers are the many sons of God.
8. From His resurrection, God began to have a family, a household. Eventually, this household becomes God's kingdom, and the children of God, the household of God, become God's precious inheritance.
9. The many grains as the increase of Christ are the components of His Body.
10. Christ's making Himself an offering for sin is related to His crucifixion. It is the "cause," and the "effect" is His seeing a seed in His resurrection.
11. God's economy comes out of God's good pleasure. God's dispensing is to fulfill God's good pleasure, which is to produce many sons to be the components of the Body of Christ, the church.

Life experience/Application:
1. Let us come to Christ as our "gasoline station" to get the spiritual gasoline, the spiritual air, and the spiritual water.
2. Since Christ is in us, the many grains, He is wherever we are.

Isa Msg 50

Truth:
1. The stage of Christ's resurrection will have no ending; it will last for eternity.
2. The arm of Jehovah is Jehovah in His power, and the man of sorrows is Jesus. When these two are put together, they equal incarnation.
3. Christ grew up like a tender plant. The plant here actually refers to a sprout, which is very tender, small, and delicate. He also grew up like a root out of dry ground, meaning that He was born of a poor family.
4. Instead of majesty, He had poverty, and instead of a beautiful appearance, He had a visage and form that were disfigured.
5. Christ was wounded by the nails in His hands and His feet, by the spear that pierced His side, and by the crow of thorns on His head.
6. Sin refers to the totality of evildoings, iniquities, trespasses, wrongdoings, and transgressions.
7. First, Christ was oppressed; then He was afflicted. Then, He was led to slaughter.
8. Christ had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His mouth, yet people treated Him in a mean way. But God in His sovereignty came in to carry out His justice.
9. During the first 3 hours, from nine o'clock until noon, all that Christ suffered was inflicted by man. Then, at noon God came in to cause all the iniquities of His chosen people to fall upon that dying One.
10. Christ died a vicarious death that was legal according to God's law and was recognized by God.
11. Christ's death was not a martyrdom. Christ's death was something carried out by God Himself according to His law.
12. In the Lord's death He laid down His life, and in His resurrection He received it back.
13. Every offering, if it is a sacrifice, must be killed, and the blood must be poured out.
14. Man did the murdering, the killing, but God carried out the legal judgement to kill Him as a legal Substitute that He might die a vicarious death for the ones for whom He died as a Substitute.

Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, it was because of my sins. Because of my sins were put on You, at that time You were counted by my God as the unique sinner; so God forsook You for my sake, because You were my Substitute there, dying a vicarious death for me that was recognized legally by God according to His law.
2. We were not only sinners but also enemies of God; thus, we also needed reconciliation. Christ's redemption did all this for us. Christ's redemption accomplished the forgiveness of sins and justification for us, the sinners, and it also accomplished reconciliation for us, the enemies of God.

Isa Msg 49

Truth:
1. The first deeper item of Christ is Christ's crucifixion. Another item of the depths of God concerning Christ is Christ's resurrection.
2. He is the searching Spirit, and He is also the unveiling Spirit, the revealing Spirit.
3. From the day that He came out to minister on this earth, the Lord Jesus acted wisely and prospered in God's pleasure.
4. First, the Father's pleasure was that the Son would go to the cross and die for His chosen people.
5. Christ entered into death and then rose up from death to enter into resurrection. Through this, God the Father begot many sons. This too is the Father's pleasure, and it is also Christ's prosperity in His resurrection.
6. Christ was not only exalted but also lifted up.
7. The Lord Jesus was continually despised, was forsaken of men, and was a man of sorrows who knew nothing but grief.
8. Christ's suffering was altogether vicarious; He suffered everything in our place.
9. In being arrested, judged, and crucified, Christ was oppressed and judged.
10. The seed produced by Christ in His resurrection is His believers for the building up of His Body as His continuation, with which He will extend His days.
11. The pleasure of Jehovah is to reveal Himself into us, to make us the seed of Christ, to make us a part of Christ, to make us the sons of God.
12. Christ is the incarnated Savior, the crucified Redeemer, the resurrected Life-giver, and the ascended Victor.
13. Jehovah will divide to His Servant a portion with the Great, that is, with God, and Jehovah's Servant will divide the spoil with the Strong, that is, with God.

Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, I look to You for my understanding of Your Word.

Isa Msg 48

Truth:
1. The first deeper item of Christ s Christ's crucifixion. Another item of the depths of God concerning Christ is Christ's resurrection.
2. He is the searching Spirit, and He is also the unveiling Spirit, the revealing Spirit.
3. From the day that He came to minister on this earth, the Lord Jesus acted wisely and prospered in God's pleasure.
4. Christ entered into death and then rose up from the death to enter into resurrection. Through this, God the Father begot many sons. This too is the Father's pleasure, and it is also Christ's prosperity in His resurrection.
5. Christ was not only exalted but also lifted up.

Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, I look to You for my understanding of Your Word.
2. As children of God, we are also heirs of God to inherit God as our everything.
3. As sinners, we have condemnation over us from God and also death within us from Satan. The condemnation of God is dissolved by Christ as the covenant, and the death that comes from Satan is annulled by Christ as the light that issues in life.
4. In the experience of a sinner, the first thing that comes in is not life but light.
5. The way to receive and enjoy such a full salvation of God is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit.
6. The way to receive and enjoy Christ is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit, with which is the very Christ.
7. If we call "O Lord Jesus," for 10 minutes, we will be in the third heavens; that is, we will be in our spirit.
8. We surely need to do the right thing, the good thing, the excellent thing, but we must go further to check by what person we do things -- by our self as our person, or by our dear Savior, Jesus Christ, as our person.
9. We need to need to remain in the spirit continuously. First, we need to call on Him, to exercise our spirit; then we need to live according to our spirit, and then remain in our spirit.

Isa Msg 47

Truth:
1. God's economy is to dispense Himself into us as our life, our person, and our everything.
2. God's justification is according to the highest standard, the standard of His righteousness.
3. Christ is the righteousness of God to us.
4. The unique way in which Abraham could receive such a son that equaled God's righteousness was by faith.
5. It is through Christ's blood that we can receive and gain God's forgiveness, and God's forgiveness equals God's justification.
6. Christ died for our sins to solve all the problems related to god's righteousness. In His resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit that He might enter into us to enliven us, to germinate us, to animate us, to make us alive.
7. For us to be God's people means that we are God's inheritance, and for God to be our God means that He is our inheritance.
8. Christ as our covenant takes care of God's righteousness, and Christ as our light releases God's life into us.
9. The central line of the divine revelation is God's economy and God's dispensing. The totality of what the Bible reveals to us is the New Jerusalem.
10. The rainbow is a sign that reminds us of God's faithfulness in keeping His word. God's faithfulness is based on His righteousness.
11. Life is the consummation of righteousness and righteousness is the base, the foundation of life.
12. New Jerusalem is the embodiment of God's full salvation, and God's full salvation is a composition of God's righteousness as the base and God's life as the consummation.
13. Christ as the covenant and Christ as the light, added together, equal God's full salvation.
14. Justification brings us into life. When we receive God's justification according to Christ as God's righteousness, the issue in us of this justification is the divine life.
15. Christ served us by dying for us, and that was to serve us by being a covenant.
16. He serves God by ministering life to us through His death and resurrection.
17. Light issues in Christ as the divine life to us.
18. The life of this light grows in us all the time, issuing in our church life today and consummating in the New Jerusalem in eternity.
19. As long as our God reigns among us, we do not need to worry about anything. When God reigns, He also supports, supplies, and provides.
20. To redeem Jerusalem is to deliver Jerusalem out of any kind of trouble, any kind of oppression, and any kind of tyranny.
21. God's people still need to know Christ in the New Testament sense.
22. The more they are oppressed, the more Christians rise up. Christ acts wisely and prosperously.
23. On the one hand, Christ is now glorified, but on the other hand, He still bears the impress of His being disfigured for us. If He were not so, He could never save us; He could never be our Substitute on the cross.
24. The entire chapter 53 is a recounting, a telling, of the things concerning Christ according to the New Testament gospel.
25. Christ was exalted indicated that He was first humiliated. To be glorified by anyone is a shame.

Life experience/Application:
1. We need to receive Him first as our righteousness, then as our life, then as our person, then as our everything, and finally as our inheritance.
2. As children of God, we are also heirs of God to inherit God as our everything.
3. As sinners, we have condemnation over us from God and also death within us from Satan. The condemnation of God is dissolved by Christ as the covenant, and the death that comes from Satan is annulled by Christ as the light that issues in life.
4. In the experience of a sinner, the first thing that comes in is not life but light.
5. The way to receive and enjoy such a full salvation of God is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit.
6. The way to receive and enjoy Christ is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit, with which is the very Christ.
7. If we call "O Lord Jesus," for 10 minutes, we will be in the third heavens; that is, we will be in our spirit.
8. We surely need to do the right thing, the good thing, the excellent thing, but we must go further to check by what person we do things -- by our self as our person, or by our dear Savior, Jesus Christ, as our person.
9. We need to need to remain in the spirit continuously. First, we need to call on Him, to exercise our spirit; then we need to live according to our spirit, and then remain in our spirit.

Isa Msg 46

Truth:
1. As the Servant of Jehovah, He is a covenant to the people and a light to the nations. Both Israel and the nations are fully qualified to inherit Jesus Christ as the covenant and to enjoy Him as the light.
2. The covenant is a matter of righteousness according to the law. If there is no fulfillment of the requirement of the law, the covenant means nothing.
3. God's righteousness binds Him, and His righteousness gives us the ground, the standing, to say, "God, You have to save me."
4. The blood was the very means by which He made for us the new testament with His Father. Redemption, justification, forgiveness, and salvation have all been covenanted by Him through His blood.
5. We can use the buying of a house to illustrate this. The deed is an agreement, a covenant. The house has been covenanted to us, the guarantee of this covenant is the title deed.
6. Before the person who enacted the covenant dies, it is the covenant. After he dies, that covenant becomes a testament. A testament in today's terms is a will.
7. The reality of all the hundreds of bequests in the New Testament is Christ. Without Christ, the Bible is empty, so the real testament, the real will, is Christ. Christ is our title deed, and this title deed is in our spirit as the all-inclusive, life-giving, indwelling, consummated Spirit.
8. God's salvation today is a covenanted salvation.
9. Christ, the Servant of Jehovah as a covenant to the people of Israel and a light to the nations has a source, an origin. This source is in His divinity, in His deity, in His being God.
10. God formed Jesus to be His Servant in the womb with His divinity saturated and mingled together with His humanity.
11. When someone is standing, we may hold him, but when he is falling, we need to uphold him.
12. To be quiet indicates a kind of victory. If a person is condemned and scolded, and yet still remains quiet and does not argue, that is a victory.
13. Some of the Lord's people are like the smoking flax that cannot give a shining light, yet the Lord will not extinguish these smoking ones.
14. When righteousness has been judged, it becomes justice. Justice is the verdict of the judgement on righteousness.
15. We not only have the items of the new testament in our mind, but we also have the reality of the new testament, who is Christ, in our spirit.
16. Christ as the covenant is for God's people to gain God with His riches as their inheritance; whereas Christ as the light is for God's people to receive God as life for their new germination.
17. Why did God, after creating the heavens and earth, form a spirit in man? This was so that man could have a recipient, a receiver, to receive God who is the Spirit to be his inheritance and life.
18. Righteousness in God's justice and life through God's light are the two basic factors of God's salvation.
19. God gives Christ as the covenant to us for justification, and He gives Christ as light to us for life.

4. Cyrus was God's counselor and Jehovah's shepherd.
5. God loves Israel, loves His kingdom signified by the city, and loves His house signified by the temple.
6. Cyrus supported the release of captives and provided a way for them to go back to their fathers' land. He charged them to go back to build up the temple of their God.
7. Cyrus was used by God to release God's captured elect, to build His house, His household, and to establish His kingdom on this earth.
8. Israel, as ones chosen by God, they are God's kingdom, God's house, and God's household.
9. Israel typifies Christ as the Witness of Jehovah.
10. Cyrus was not only serving God but also serving Israel. His pleasant service sent them back to their fathers' land and provided for them on the way.
11. Cyrus, the Gentile king, Israel, God's chosen people, and Isaiah, the prophet set up by God, all did the same thing to please God. They served to release God's people, to build up God's house, and to build up God's kingdom signified by the city.
12. We all are God's servants doing the same thing in the universe -- to release God's people, to build up His temple, the house, and to build up His kingdom, the city.
13. Cyrus, Israel, Isaiah, and Christ are one, serving Jehovah God for His good pleasure to make Him happy in releasing and raising up God's elect to build God's temple and God's city and to set up God's kingdom, which will be enlarged to consummate in the New Jerusalem.

Isa Msg 45

Truth:
1. The 39 books of the OT may be considered as the element, and the first 39 chapters of Isaiah are the essence extracted from this element.
2. Revealing means manifesting. The revealing of the Lord Jehovah is the appearing of the very God, and this Lord Jehovah, the very God, is the Lord Jesus Christ. Jehovah, the Lord God, appears as the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior.
3. The church was not created. The church was built up with something that has come out of Christ.
4. Cyrus was God's counselor and Jehovah's shepherd.
5. God loves Israel, loves His kingdom signified by the city, and loves His house signified by the temple.
6. Cyrus supported the release of captives and provided a way for them to go back to their fathers' land. He charged them to go back to build up the temple of their God.
7. Cyrus was used by God to release God's captured elect, to build His house, His household, and to establish His kingdom on this earth.
8. Israel, as ones chosen by God, they are God's kingdom, God's house, and God's household.
9. Israel typifies Christ as the Witness of Jehovah.
10. Cyrus was not only serving God but also serving Israel. His pleasant service sent them back to their fathers' land and provided for them on the way.
11. Cyrus, the Gentile king, Israel, God's chosen people, and Isaiah, the prophet set up by God, all did the same thing to please God. They served to release God's people, to build up God's house, and to build up God's kingdom signified by the city.
12. We all are God's servants doing the same thing in the universe -- to release God's people, to build up His temple, the house, and to build up His kingdom, the city.
13. Cyrus, Israel, Isaiah, and Christ are one, serving Jehovah God for His good pleasure to make Him happy in releasing and raising up God's elect to build God's temple and God's city and to set up God's kingdom, which will be enlarged to consummate in the New Jerusalem.

Life experience/Application:
1. Each one of us needs to be today's Cyrus. Like Cyrus, we need to be birds of prey who go out to gain sinners for God's kingdom. The saved sinners are our prey.
2. We should not go to speak to others as professors. We should go to speak as learners, as trainees, as instructed and taught ones.

Isa Msg 44

Truth:
1. As the Servant of Jehovah, He is typified by three persons -- Cyrus, Isaiah, and Israel.
2. Isa. says in 40:9, "Here is your God!" As long as God is here, the glad tidings are here.
3. Jesus came in the way of incarnation, the way of entering into man and becoming a man to directly participate in man's humanity, partaking of man's blood and flesh.
4. When we heard the gospel, we saw Jesus, we were made alive, and we partook of His eternal life for our enjoyment.
5. He is the Ruler who comes as a mighty One to rule over us. He is also the Judge. He will either reward us or punish us. With Him is a reward on the positive side and a punishment, which is a recompense on the negative side.
6. His ruling and correcting is His shepherding. He is adjusting us not to go too fast or too slow, but to take the pace of the flock.
7. As the Shepherd, He also feeds His flock, gathers the lambs in His arm, carries them in His bosom, and leads those who are nursing the young.

Life experience/Application:
1. To prepare the way of Jehovah is to prepare our heart. Jesus comes with the intention of getting into our spirit, but to enter into our spirit, He must pass through our heart. The human heart is full of valleys, hills, crooked places, and rough places.
2. Every part and avenue of our heart need to be straightened by the Lord through repentance that the Lord may enter into us to be our life and take possession of us.
3. The more you listen to His speaking, the more you see Jehovah. Jesus is still speaking, and His words remain forever.
4. When I speak, I always exercise not to speak from myself. I exercise to speak the word of the Lord. When we speak in this way, the Lord is present in our speaking, and others are able to see Jesus.
5. If you have God, you have everything. If you have God, every problem will be solved, every lack will be supplied, and every shortage will be filled. We should pray adequately to be filled with God, to receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
6. We will realize that apart from Christ, we are even less than nothing, vanity, emptiness.
7. If a brother with a high position treasures this position, he will not be able to enjoy Christ that much.

Isa Msg 42

Truth:
1. Isa 22:20-24 show that He is the Steward in God's house, He is the Father as the Source and Supplier to the people of God key-holder, a peg, throne of glory, and One upon whom hangs all the glory of His Father's house.
2. While Christ as the Steward serves us in God's house, He governs us. Christ is God's Steward taking care of God's children.
3. The house of David was for the establishment of the kingdom of David, and the house of God is for the establishment of the kingdom of God.
4. When the church as the house of God is adequately built up, the church is manifested as the kingdom of God.
5. The treasures today in the house of God are all the riches of Christ.
6. To be exalted to the third heaven is to be exalted to God the Father because the Father is in the third heaven.
7. The glory is the children of God as the offspring and issue of God, and these children of God are the vessels of Christ, hanging upon Him as the peg.
8. Glory refers to God's descendants, all of God's people. Offspring implies the second generation, and issue implies the later generations.
9. As the children of God, we are God's shooting out and also God's growth.
10. Today in God's house, on the one hand, we are God's children, and on the other hand, we are the vessels. Whether we are small cups or bulging bottles, we are all vessels.
11. Cups, or bowls, are small vessels to contain water, and bulging bottles, pitchers, or jars are big vessels to contain wine. Water typifies the Spirit of Christ, and wine typifies the divine life.
12. All the riches of the bountiful supply for the enjoyment of God's children are hanging on Christ as the peg, the holder. In the house of God all His children who hang on the all-inclusive Christ and who are the containers of the riches of God in this Christ should also be vessels for ministering Christ to others.

Life experience/Application:
1. The more I prayed to Him, the more I enjoyed Him, and the more I enjoyed Him, the more He restricted me.
2. If we are short of understanding and wisdom, we should call on Him, look to Him, and wait on Him. He will be our understanding and wisdom.
3. Lord, replace me with Christ. He Himself must be everything in us and to us.
4. I am not hanging on the plane; I am hanging on Christ. Christ is the peg on which I hang.
5. If we feel that we are dead, we need to drink the living water and drink the new wine.

Isa Msg 41

Truth:
1. He reigns not only in our hearts but also in the tent of David. Christ reigning in the tent of David signifies consolation, encouragement, and restoration.
2. For Him to reign in us in the tent of David means that He reigns in us with a kingdom.
3. Lovingkindness means tender affection. All of us can approach His throne because lovingkindness is there.
4. To judge is to adjust and correct in order to make peace. Christ is the unique Judge in the whole universe.

Life experience/Application:
1. If we are under His ruling, His reigning, we will be the same as He is in these virtues -- lovingkindnes, truthfulness, faithfulness, justice, and righteousness.
2. Lord, we do not ever want to plant plants for another god. We want to always remember You.
3. He not only saves us in many ways but also defends us at the time of need.
4. We have such a Teacher who will no longer hide Himself in a corner from His people but will always instruct His people to turn to the right or turn to the left at the crossroad.
5. Today we are enjoying Him in these four aspects in the age of grace as a foretaste. Christ is our King, our eternal Rock, our Savior as our mighty Defender, and our Teacher. Every day He is teaching us. He is no longer hiding. Whenever we come to a crossroad, He is there at the corner, telling us whether we should to the right or to the left.

Isa Msg 40

Truth:
1. The fountain is the source, the spring is the issue of the source, and the waterbrook, or the river, is the flow.
2. The springs issue out of the fountain. The springs are Christ. These springs become the rivers, which are the Spirit.
3. God as our salvation is the fountain; Christ is the springs of salvation for our enjoyment and experience; and the Spirit is the flow of this salvation within us.
4. Salvation is based upon redemption. Based upon His redemption, He as our Redeemer becomes our Savior and our salvation.

Life experience/Application:
1. When God's salvation is experienced by us, this salvation becomes our strength, and eventually it will be our song, our praising.
2. If we want the Lord to save us, we must drink Him. They way to receive the processed Triune God is by drinking Him. When the water gets into us, it permeates our entire being. The way that we get nourished, transformed, conformed, and glorified is by drinking Christ into us.
3. The water that we drink passes through our entire being, is assimilated by us, and even becomes us.
4. Jesus to breathe the Name of Jesus is to drink of life indeed.
5. By calling "O Lord Jesus" we breathe, and by breathing we drink.
6. Praising Jehovah and calling upon His name are put together as one. Whenever we call on the name of the Lord, that implies praising. When we say, "O Lord Jesus, I love You," this is praising and breathing.
7. We human beings are altogether weak, frail, fragile, and mortal. We cannot do anything apart from the Lord.
8. When we breathe in this air, we get the water because the water is in the air. This illustrates that our breathing is also our drinking. Spiritually, our calling is our breathing, and our breathing is our drinking.

Isa Msg 39

Truth:
1. A twig coming out from a dried and dead stump is a strong indication of the restoring power in this life.
2. The branch signifies that this life has the deepening power, the growing power, and the fruit-bearing power.
3. A banner is full of explanation, description, and instruction. A standard is to call the people and to gather the people.
4. Christ as the twig becomes the banner and as the branch becomes the standard.
5. Christ stands as a banner indicates being full of strength and ability.
6. Christ as the banner to the peoples and the standard to the nations will bring in the return of God's people and the submission of the Gentiles.
7. God's chastisement of His chosen people and His judgment of the nations ushers in Christ.

Life experience/Application:
1. If we are jealous of each other and hostile to each other, we cannot be together to plunder the people from the west and from the east, and they will not fall into the grasp of our hand and submit to us.
2. Lord, make me full of restoration of life.

Isa Msg 38

Truth:
1. The completion of His being sent by God is accomplished in three ways: by His building up of the church, by His preparing of Israel, and by His adjustment, His judging, of the nations.
2. He is so full of the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah.
3. His being the Shoot of Jehovah indicates His divinity. His being a twig from the stem of Jesse and a branch from the roots of Jesse indicates His humanity.
4. A twig from the stem of Jesse indicates the restoring power of life in freshness.
5. The roots of Jesse indicate the hidden deepening power of life.
6. A twig is the beginning of a branch, and a branch is for fruitfulness.
7. The administration of Jehovah is of two items -- righteousness and justice.
8. Equity is justice.
9. Righteousness girds His loins, making Him strong, faithfulness girds His hips, making Him steady.
10. Because the church life is a foretaste of the coming age, all the "wolves," "leopards," "bears," "lions," and "vipers" should have their nature changed.

Life experience/Application:
1. There are many places to which we dare not go, because we have the fear of Jehovah.
2.

Isa Msg 37

Truth:
1. Christ is the great light for the shining in darkness and for the release from bondage.
2. In the entire universe, light is the key to life.
3. When we have light, everything is in order. When we see everything, we have peace.
4. Darkness is the shadow of death.
5. He shines upon the people walking in darkness, shining upon those dwelling in the shadow of death.
6. His shining is our salvation, and His shining is His saving of us. By His shining, darkness is gone.
7. The shining of the light is the release, and the darkness is the bondage.
8. Christ as the great light destroys our enemies and destroys their armor.
9. The Lord Jesus fights against His enemy by fire.
10. The release from bondage is actually the multiplication of God's people. The more God's people are released from bondage, the more they are multiplied.
11. Whenever there is a harvest, there is joy.
12. On the one hand, we are the farmers, on the other hand, we are the warriors, the fighters. We have the gladness of the harvest and the gladness of the warriors dividing their spoil from their victory.

Life experience/Application:
1. Light subdues, defeats, and overcomes darkness. A brother may be quarreling with his wife, but when the light shines within him, he stops quarreling.
2. We need more shining because the inner shining is His saving.
3. Christ saves us by shining in us. What can stop the unpleasant situation between roommates? Christ as the light can stop this. This is why we need a morning revival with the Lord. In the morning when we are in the Word and in the Lord, the Lord takes the opportunity to shine into us.
4. In addition to our time of morning revival, we need to walk in Christ as the light. Just as we wash our hands many times a day, we need the washing of His blood through the confessing of our sins under the shining of His light many times a day.

Isa Msg 36

Truth:
1. Isaiah 8:14-15 reveals that Christ is a sanctuary to the positive ones. he is also seen as a stone to the strike against, a rock of stumbling, a trap, and a snare to the negative ones.
2. The tabernacle and the temple were not only the dwelling place of God but also the dwelling place of His serving ones, the priests.
3. In John 1 He is God's tabernacle; in John 2 He is God's temple.
4. Christ as the Head and we as the members of His Body are the temple of God. Eventually, this temple will consummate in the New Jerusalem, the enlarged, extended sanctuary of God.
5. The church life is a life in which we take our God, our Lord, our Christ as our sanctuary and as our roommate.
6. The New Jerusalem is the aggregate of God and man living together. For eternity God will love man, man will love God, and God and man will live together as roommates.
7. The One, who is Jehovah's Shoot to branch out Jehovah, in His divinity, into humanity, would be the sanctuary of all His chosen ones.
8. The Pharisees and the Jewish leaders struck against Christ as a stone, and the unbelieving ones stumbled at Christ as a rock.
9. To the negative ones, He is a stone to strike against, a rock of stumbling, a trap, and a snare.


Life experience/Application:
1. We enjoy God as our sunshine, our drinking water, our food, and our air when we dwell in Him as our sanctuary, our dwelling place.
2. The only way that we can enjoy God in every way is to live in Him, taking Him as our sanctuary and living with Him as our roommate.

Isa Msg 35

Truth:
1. The word child in these verses implies God, implies man, implies God becoming a man, and implies God and man mingled together as one.
2. He was a human child born of a human virgin, yet He was also the very God.
3. The divine essence out of the Holy spirit has been generated in Mary's womb before she delivered the child Jesus.
4. This God-man is Emmanuel, and He is also God the Savior.
5. He is God coming from divinity and with divinity into humanity to be Jehovah the Savior to save us from sin, on the negative side, and to save us to God, on the positive side.


Life experience/Application:
1. God came as grace and reality for us to receive Him, gain Him, and enjoy Him. We had nothing real until we received the incarnated God.
2. Whenever we go to Jesus, He IMMEDIATELY gives us the counsel. In all of our relationships with others, He is our Counselor to give us the best counsel.
3. When we have Him, we have His ruling, His government, His peace. If we would silently receive the cross and receive Christ as the Prince ruling over us, we would immediately have peace within.

Isa Msg 34

Truth:
1. His robe is the first main item in the scene in Ch 6 because it fills the temple. The second item is the temple being filled with smoke. The third item is the seraphim.
2. The divine glory is signified by the smoke, holiness is signified by the seraphim, and the Lord's human virtues are signified by the train of His robe.
3. Human virtues depend upon righteousness.
4. The seraphim calling to each other signifies their fellowship with each other, indicating that they signify or represent the holiness of Christ.
5. Christ is expressed in His human virtues much more than in His divine glory.
6. Christ was wearing a long robe in this vision. This means that Christ's humanity is "long."
7. The glory filling the earth is universal, and the robe filling the temple is local.
8. A righteous person is a sanctified person.
9. Isaiah was sent by Christ to a people who were short of the divine glory, were violating the divine holiness, and were corrupt in the human virtues. He was sent by the Lord to lead Israel to express Christ's divine glory in His human virtues held in His holiness.
10. Righteousness is the base, the foundation, of God's salvation.

Life experience/Application:
1. To live Christ is to express Christ's divine glory in His holiness with His righteousness.

Isa msg 33

Truth:
1. Isaiah's central point is to show us how God made Christ the centrality and universality of His great move for the accomplishment of His economy.
2. The title Immanuel includes "Jehovah" and "the earth" because it means God with us, that is, God with man.
3. Christ as the Shoot of Jehovah is for the branching out of Jehovah God, in His divinity, into humanity.
4. Jesus was the divine title given by god. Immanuel, meaning God with us, was the name called by man.
5. Our God with His divine nature is our beauty and our glory. His divinity is our beauty and our glory.
6. Christ as the Fruit of the earth is for multiplication and reproduction of the divine life in humanity; humanity is the soil, the earth, for the Triune God to be multiplied and reproduced.
7. The canopy is covering, and the tabernacle is overshadowing. The canopy is of the divine glory, and the tabernacle is of Christ's grace in His humanity.
8. The Shoot of Jehovah and the Fruit of the earth, as the God-man in His divinity and His humanity as well, will be a covering canopy of the divine glory and an overshadowing tabernacle of grace in humanity.
9. The covering canopy of glory is also a cloud of smoke as a shade by day from the heat and the brightness of a fiery flame by night against the darkness.
10. He is presently overshadowing His believers in His grace as a daytime shade from the heat and as a refuge and a cover from storm and rain.

Life experience/Application:
1. We must live a life which expresses Christ's beauty and glory in a divine way and which expresses Christ's excellence and splendor in a human way.
2. Requirements to partake Christ in the age of restoration:
1) We should be people who have escaped any kind of bondage or slavery
2) Living and remaining in a holy life in God's chosen place -- the local church is Zion and the Body of Christ is Jerusalem
3) The judging and burning Spirit should work within us to wash away our filth and to cleanse away our bloodstains. We "kill" the saints through our gossiping and spreading of rumors.

Isa Msg 32

Truth:
1. Christ intends to come down to earth and remain on earth for eternity. Before He can do this, He needs to accomplish His work of renewing the earth.
2. The unique work carried out by God's people in the restoration will be to sing, praise, worship, and rejoice.
3. Calling on the Lord will be their occupation.
4. In this restoration death will be limited, and there will be abundant life and much praise and rejoicing.
5. Today we offer sinners to God as sacrifices, but in the restoration the nations will bring the scattered Israelites as a meal offering to God.
6. In the millennial kingdom the Jews will be priests on earth, and the believers will be priests in the heavens.

Life experience/Application:

Isa Msg 31

Truth:
1. Christ was anointed by God and with God, and then through His death and resurrection He became the ointment for the anointing of others.
2. In His first coming, Christ came to minister, to dispense, Himself into His followers. When He comes the second time, He will come mainly in an outward way to rescue Israel from their circumstances and to bring in their restoration.
3. In Isaiah's prophesy the Lord's two comings are like two mountain peaks which, when viewed from a distance, seem to be one peak.
4. Both Christ and His 12 apostles seemingly forsook Israel and established the church. However, in the restoration, when the Lord returns in His second coming, He will first receive the throne of David His father, and then He will be the Ruler of the nations. His twelve apostles will be His helpers to rule over the nation of Israel.
5. During the restoration, righteousness will be dispensed, transfused, into the Jews, they will shine forth righteousness.
6. The first section of His coming results in the producing and building up of the church.
7. The second section will be of 3 parts. 1) Christ will be in the heavens to receive the raptured overcomers into His presence. 2) He will descend with His overcomers from the third heaven to the air. He will judge the believers and have a wedding day. 3) Christ and His newly-married bride as His army will descend to Bozrah to destroy the armies of the earth.

Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, may I have more of Your anointing!

Isa Msg 30

Truth:
1. To keep the Sabbath is to be "fired" and replaced by Christ so that we may get into Him and rest in Him for eternity.
2. The real meaning of fasting according to the Bible is to cease from the taste of anything other than Christ.
3. On the negative side, Christ is saving us from our sins and iniquities; on the positive side, He is our light and glory.
4. Our mouth is for three things: breathing, eating, and speaking. Among these three, the most crucial is speaking.
5. Speaking is a problem to us all. Our speaking may minister life to others, or it may minister death to others. If the saints in the church life could be corrected in their speaking, every church would be revived.
6. The Triune God is embodied in Christ, Christ is embodied in the word, the word is realized as the Spirit, and the Spirit is the consummation of the Triune God.
7. He is the Spirit for our breathing and the word for our feeding.
8. In the restoration Israel will be glorified and beautified and thus become God's beautification. God will be beautified by the restored and beautified Israel.
9. By putting Himself into us as the Spirit and the word, He becomes our beauty, brightness, and splendor. By means of the life-giving Spirit and the word, which is the embodiment of Christ, we received the divine dispensing. The more He dispenses Himself into us as life and everything to us, the more we become bright, beautiful, and glorious. The is Christ becoming our light and glory. Eventually, we will become God's glory and beauty. He becomes our beauty so that we may become His beauty. In this way God and His chosen people are glorified and beautified in mutuality.

Life experience/Application:
1. Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God has accomplished God's full redemption, and now He is applying His complete salvation to His believers.
2. By fasting and resting, we pan partake of all that the processed Christ has accomplished for us.
3. God has put His Spirit and His word into our mouth. His Spirit is for us to breathe and His word is for our nourishment and for our speaking.
4. Both breathing and speaking are for dispensing. The more we breath and eat, the more the elements of life are dispensed into us. Since we have God's Spirit and God's word, all day long we can be under God's dispensing if we breathe the Spirit and are nourished with the word.
5. Instead of being limited in our breathing, we need to exercise spiritual DEEP breathing. The more deeply we breathe the Spirit, the HEALTHIER we will be in our spiritual life.

Isa Msg 29

Truth:
1. Keeping the Sabbath is that we cease from our doing, stop our work, and enjoy what the Lord has done for us, drinking of Him as the water.
2. To keep the Sabbath is to believe in the Lord Jesus. To believe in Christ is actually to be "fired," to be replaced with Christ, and to drink of Him as the waters.
3. The real meaning of fasting is to stop eating all things other than the Lord Jesus and to not have the taste for anything other than Him.
4. The evil condition of the wicked is that they do not come to the Lord to eat and enjoy the Lord.
5. To take refuge in the Lord is to get into Him and stay in Him to enjoy Him.
6. The wicked ones do many things, but they cannot have peace, because they do not
contact the Lord, rest in Him, and remain in His presence.
7. We should be replaced by Christ and enjoy God continually. This is the purpose for which Christ died for us and was resurrected for us.

Life experience/Application:
1. The more we realize that it is no longer we who live but that it is Christ who lives in us, the more we drink of the waters.
2. We may be busy, even with our morning revival, and not have any contact with the Lord. We need to learn at every moment and during every action to touch, taste, eat, and enjoy the Lord.
3. The greatest obstacle to our Christian life is our failure to contact the Lord.
4. Our heart needs to be revived in one way, and our spirit needs to be revived in another way. The way to have a real revival is to contact the Lord.
5. If we contact the lord, have fellowship with Him, and remain in His presence, He will be happy and we will have peace.
6. Some may think that they are right and others are wrong, that they are spiritual and others are not serious with the Lord. As a result, these ones condemn others in the church life, and their condemnation becomes a yoke on others' shoulders.
7. The one who fasts in the right way will be full of light and life.

Isa Msg 27

Truth:
1. Christ grew up not only like a tender plant but also like a root out of dry ground. For the Lord Jesus, this dry ground included the poor home of Joesph and Mary, the despised city of Nazareth, and the despised region of Galilee.
2. Sicknesses and sorrows are mentioned with transgressions and iniquities because our sicknesses and sorrows come from one thing -- sin. If we had never sinned, we could never be sick and we would have no sorrow.
3. The vicarious death of Christ depends on God's being pleased to put Him to death and on Christ's being willing to die in such a way. Because He had no sin, He did not need to die for Himself. His vicarious death was for us.
4. When He justified us, He exercised His knowledge and considered such matters as how we would be related to God and how we would affect the kingdom of God.
5. We have a great many sins, but because Christ has decided to justify us, to accept us, He is willing to bar all our sins.
6. On the one hand, the New Jerusalem will be a great pleasure, a great enjoyment, shared by God and Christ. On the other hand, the New Jerusalem will be a spoil captured by Christ from Satan.
7. The security of Israel is maintained by Christ, who is the covenant for them.

Life experience/Application:
1. When we are sick, it is proper for us to pray, "Lord, because in Your death for me You bore my sicknesses, I do have the ground to ask You to take my sickness away."

Isa Msg 26

Truth:
1. God's judgment is a light. If we have His judgment, we have His light. Otherwise, we are in darkness.
2. Jehovah's arm is Christ the Servant of Jehovah. Jehovah's arm for Israel is actually Christ for Israel.
3. The vessels of the temple typify the ways and means for God's people to enjoy Christ. These vessels continued to exist, but they were marred.
4. Religious Babylon is very mysterious. It has God, Christ, and Satan within it. It has a name that it proclaims god and preaches Christ as the Savior. But when its members believe its preaching, they are brought into the secrets, mysteries, and deep things of Satan to worship idols.
5. Anything that is part of Babylon is abominable in the eyes of God.

Life experience/Application:
1. Anything that is Babylonian gives Satan the ground to defeat the people of God. If we would serve God as His pure people, we first need to have a thorough clearance of all Babylonian things.

Isa Msg 25

Truth:
1. Three persons of the servant of Jehovah: Christ, Isaiah, and Israel. Because we are in Christ, we are also servants of Jehovah.
2. The word of God is God's embodiment. When speak forth God's word, we speak forth God.
3. Christ is the great light to the nations and the he is God's salvation extending to the ends of the earth.
4. A covenant is a signed agreement between two parties, in which promises are made. A covenant becomes a will upon the death of the covenanting party.
5. Christ is our will, our covenant, and He is all the riches given to us in the will.
6. Those who make light for themselves and walk in their self-made light instead of God's light will suffer torment.

Life experience/Application:
1. We all need to learn to speak forth God's word.
2. To experience Christ as the expanding land is to occupy Christ as the land for the building up of God's kingdom. The more we experience Christ, the more we sense that Christ is expanding within us.
3. When we returned to the Lord, immediately there were roads and highways, and we knew what to do and where to go.
4. He who fears Jehovah and hears the voice of His servant has light while walking in darkness.

Isa Msg 24

Truth:
1. Anything that replaces God or occupies the position of God is an idol as a burden to the worshipper. A person, education, or a high position with a company can all become idols to us.
2. Cyrus was the "bird of prey" called by God to subdue the nations.
3. Babylon denotes not only a nation but also a religion, the religious aspect, signifying the Roman Catholic Church, and the material aspect, signifying the city of Rome, the capital of Antichrist's kingdom.
4. Israel's captivity in Babylon typifies the captivity of today's Cristians in the Babylonian religion.

Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, save me from idols. I don't worship Arena, I worship You.

Isa Msg 23

Truth:
1. Israel's being God's servant is related to God's desire in His economy to have a corporate expression of Himself for His glory.
2. Those who are God's witnesses are also His servants.
3. God carries out His salvation by using His Spirit to bring down Christ as righteousness and by opening us to receive Christ as salvation and righteousness.
4. Everyone who is one with Christ is a type of Christ because such persons are part of Christ. All who are part of Christ are types of Christ, who is the Servant of God, and they also are servants of God.

Life experience/Application:
1. We have been fired by God but also replaced with Christ to be one with Him.
Lord, keep me one with You.

Isa Msg 22

Truth:
1. Anyone who is replaced by Christ and waits on Him to enjoy God's life power in grace is a servant of Jehovah.
2. A testament is a covenant, a signed agreement, that has become a will in which certain things are passed on to the heirs.

Life experience/Application:
1. We need to learn to come to the Word of God so that we may touch God. When we receive the living and abiding word of God, we are regenerated, and we realize that we are part of the new creation.
2. Christ must be the judgment for everything in our daily life. For example, we should have the Lord's judgment concerning the kind of shoes we buy and the way we style our hair.
3. With Christ, we have an answer for everything.
4. To wait on Christ means that we bring every question to Him. Before doing a certain thing, we should bring that matter to the Lord and wait for His judgment.

Isa Msg 21

Truth:
1. The second part (Ch. 40 to 66) begins with a word of comfort spoken to the heart of Jerusalem. The fact that this word is spoken to the heart means that it is concerned with NOT with the outer man but with the inner man. The speaking of the word of comfort to the heart of Jerusalem is actually the announcing of the gospel.
2. Immediately after the coming of John the Baptist is the appearing of Christ as the glory of Jehovah (v.5). The glory of Jehovah is the center of the gospel for the new creation.
3. The word of God is actually Christ as the gospel of God.

Life experience/Application:
1. Many times I become weary at work. "Jehovah empowers those who are weary." Lord, empower me as I become weary at work.
2. "All men are as nothing before God; they are accounted as less than nothing and vanity." Lord, grant me such a view so I can forget about Arena.
3. Lord, teach me to "stop myself with my living, doing, and activity and receive Christ as my replacement." May I experience "the resurrection power, be transformed, and soar in the heavens."